Let's pretend we're 1996.

[Anonymous]

World Wide Web alphabetical directory listing.

Pets.com

Dancing Hamsters

[Anonymous]

Wasn’t DCUM a listserv? One of my friends who had a baby earlier than the rest of us loved it. I didn’t join until 2004 when we were searching for a nanny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wasn’t DCUM a listserv? One of my friends who had a baby earlier than the rest of us loved it. I didn’t join until 2004 when we were searching for a nanny.

2002

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/about

[Anonymous]

I'd be a newlywed, starting my first day as a married person!

[Anonymous]

From what I recall of AOL chatrooms in that year.....

If I were a watermelon, would you spit or swallow?

Welcome to the WWW!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m on the DCUM chat room

It wasn’t around yet or was just a neighborhood email newsletter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who on earth would actually buy things off the internet? I'll never stop going to stores where you can touch and try things on. So weird.

+1

[Anonymous]

IRC baby!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where’d I put the napkin I wrote the Mapquest directions on?

This is how I moved from Chicago to DC. Directions on a napkin.

Could have used a printer, maybe.

[Anonymous]

Why are you all wasting your time on this weird thing called the... uh... internet? That's for the dweebs and dorks in the computer lab in the basement. I mean, computers? Come on. I have a real life to live, thank you.

[Anonymous]

Have you guys heard about this new search engine called Altavista?

[Anonymous]

Downloading one picture is too much for the modem. Everything must be text.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Downloading one picture is too much for the modem. Everything must be text.

Mosaic would let you turn off image loading. That was quite helpful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who on earth would actually buy things off the internet? I'll never stop going to stores where you can touch and try things on. So weird.

Nobody was buying stuff off the internet in 1996

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who on earth would actually buy things off the internet? I'll never stop going to stores where you can touch and try things on. So weird.

Nobody was buying stuff off the internet in 1996

I was. Even eBay was around.